Essay

In 1978 French economist Philip Fournier publishes a book entitled The Thirty Glorious Years of the 20th Century. In it he talks about an epoch of constant and increasing economic expansion that, from the beginning of the division West/East to the late 1960s, brings changes to many of the world’s forces. Most of them are [...]

In 1957 literary critic Michael Rowling published an essay on famous U.S. exiles that had come back to the States which he entitled “Tales of Expatriates,” but oddly enough he did not include Jenny Nguen in it. It is difficult to assimilate that fact as Jenny Nguen’s bestselling novel Eden on Earth was termed as [...]

It seems very strange that famous U.S. writer of Vietnamese origin Jenny Nguen is not included in literary critic Michael Rowling’s essay on U.S. expatriates who have returned from abroad entitled “Tales of Expatriates.” The oddity of this fact was not only because Nguen had returned to the United States in the same year after [...]